Visual studio + explore sftp

Question

I'm looking for a way to develope using Visual studio 2013 on a remote server, using only sftp/ssh(browsing the remote folder in solution explorer, and uploding file using ctrl+s). I know it's possible to open a simple ftp site using File>Open Websit, but that dose not suppors sftp.

Dose anyone know of a addon/plugin for that?

10x!

Solution 1

Ok, so I finally came up with an answer to this question. I found this sftp to ftp tunnle, which I installd locally, and simply connect Visual studio to ftp on 127.0.0.1:

http://www.bitvise.com/ssh-client-download

10x a lot!

Solution 2

While this will be possible, you are likely going to have a poor development experience. Visual Studio does a lot of File IO during compilation so the latency sftp will inevitably introduce is going to make this quite slow.

To get going, you'll need a way to mount a sftp share in windows. A quick google search turned this up: http://sumtips.com/2011/09/mount-ftp-sftp-server-as-drive.html which details how to use SFTP Net Drive. (If that doesn't work, you might want to check SuperUser, or ask the question there.

Once you have your SFTP mounted as a drive in Windows, this SO thread discusses using Visual Studio: Keeping Visual Studio Projects on a Network Drive including modifications you'll need to make for permissions.

Solution 3

Tamir SharpSSH is what i use. seems to work pretty well.

Comments

[MoLow]

I actually tryed that, and I had performance issues even without compiling anything, just by mounting a large directory. I was hoping there is a plugin that could be used within VS, and only download and upload files. I mostly develop web client side, so I complie projects rarely.

[Justin]

How did you get this to work? Do you run devenv.exe each time you want to edit a file?